[Albion] Aaron Connolly - joining Hull permanently

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

But if he saves his career, it hasn't 'ended up' this way. He's still young really - and may well have a good future ahead of him.

No i agree - although it sounds like his Albion career has

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[ac gull]

Gordon Greer behind the scenes as loans manager will I suspect being playing a key role in providing some tough love so to speak

 

[sydney]

I’d more take from that he acknowledges that he was hanging round with the wrong people in the wrong places here. Exactly what everyone on this thread’s been saying.


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piss weak excuse really don't you think , if you peer group are affecting your ability to reach your peak in professional football , most young lads dream , then surely you move on.

it is a problem with some lads , they would rather just get on the piss.

 

[Easy 10]

piss weak excuse really don't you think , if you peer group are affecting your ability to reach your peak in professional football , most young lads dream , then surely you move on.

it is a problem with some lads , they would rather just get on the piss.

Moving on is easier said than done when you are an immature young man with money, an ego the size of Cornwall, and an invincibility complex.

Sounds like Potter gave up on him, which probably tells you all you need to know. He needed this totally fresh start away from BHA. A clean slate, its down to him now.

 

[sydney]

Moving on is easier said than done when you are an immature young man with money, an ego the size of Cornwall, and an invincibility complex.

Sounds like Potter gave up on him, which probably tells you all you need to know. He needed this totally fresh start away from BHA. A clean slate, its down to him now.

his ego may be cast iron , perhaps his will is a tad weak at this stage , i wanted him to succeed and i still hope he does , hope he doesn't have to go any further east to get away from his daft mates. Galatasaray , Fernebache..?

 

[Hugo Rune]

Sounds like he’s grown up a bit. And glad he’s sorted his friendship group, it was evident he was choosing spending time with mates etc during last pre season from a story I heard. All down to him but he has a great chance at a level to score goals.

I’m really pleased that he has taken ‘the first step’ in acknowledging that he is well on his way to tanking his career and that it’s all HIS fault.

The hard bit is the next bit. I can see him knocking in double figures in Serie A, he has the natural talent. I can also see him scoring nothing and being sent home early. Let’s see if he has the mental capacity to back up those introspectively honest statements. I wish him all the luck of the Irish, they probably need him more than we do.

 

[Dibdab]

I’ve been a big critic but fair play for him acknowledging what we could all see very clearly. Hope he turns it around and makes decent career and life for himself if he does make the right changes.

 

[The Fits]

Fair play to the lad. It won’t be here sadly but I really do wish him the best. We’ve all lost our way at times- there is a player in him, I hope he finds some love and success this season.

 

[Easy 10]

I can see him knocking in double figures in Serie A, he has the natural talent.

He's in Serie B. If he can't knock some in there, then I dunno where he goes next. Sligo Rovers ?

 

[American Seagle]

He's in Serie B. If he can't knock some in there, then I dunno where he goes next. Sligo Rovers ?

As long as he is ours I hope his next move is back to us to bang them in
Mad that anyone wants him to fail.

 

[Popeye]

As long as he is ours I hope his next move is back to us to bang them in
Mad that anyone wants him to fail.

I don't know that a lot of people want him to fail persay(I don't anyway) but more about holding hopes in reserve that he can become something of a good player for us. Hopefully he does well in Serie B. I wouldn't neccesarily use the phrase an 'easy' league but yes though if he wants to get another shot in the Prem he needs to have a pretty fantastic season there.

We shall see.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

“A lot of people know why I haven’t kicked on and I know myself. That’s why this move to Italy was vital, just to get away from the circle I was in back in England, I needed a fresh start."

“My confidence was on the deck, when I missed chances and hadn’t been playing. I wasn’t in the right place to go on loan last year. I did it because I wanted to play football but I wish this version of myself right now had showed up at Middlesbrough. It would have been a different story."

“Mentally, I wouldn’t have been able to move abroad last season. I wouldn’t have been excited. But this time, I couldn’t say yes quick enough. I’ve got a good group of people around me now, a good group of mates… the old circle I used to be around off the pitch, I’ve had to make my mind up."

“It’s either keep going in the phase I was going in and eventually I’ll just be completely forgotten. At the minute I’m probably the forgotten man in Irish football and if I kept associating with people I’d been associating with before, I would have completely gone off the scale."

“Now I think I’ve turned that around and hopefully people will be able to see that with performances and workrate and hopefully goals."

“The association I had with people off the pitch and away from the training ground, it was never going to benefit me in any way, being around people in certain places. The support network I have around me right now, friends and family, the people that are in my life right now, they are only helping. They don’t want anything from me.”

Well you can’t ask for a more honesty and frank explanation, let’s hope he can kick on for his own mental health and his potential future in the game, be it with us or elsewhere I hope it works out for him.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I’d more take from that he acknowledges that he was hanging round with the wrong people in the wrong places here. Exactly what everyone on this thread’s been saying.


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Well, ALMOST, everyone.

 

[Icy Gull]

Aaron’s last sentence suggests that he has got wise to the hangers on using him

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Aaron’s last sentence suggests that he has got wise to the hangers on using him

As I have commented before, god knows what i would have got up to with his talent, fame and money, dead in a ditch at 23.

Fake friends sometimes take time to wise up to, and that only comes with life experience's and mistakes, you live and learn as they say.
It must be hard also being far away from family, those calming familiar tones and wise advise from family is not the same over a phone or video link.

good luck Aaron

 

[knocky1]

I watched last September's Palace game in Aaron's home town of Oranmore. Everyone seemed to know him and had great respect for him. Hope it goes well for him and that he doesn't end up with a Jimmy 5 Bellies as a mate out there.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

I like that he's been man enough to take a backwards step and take a move way out of his comfort zone to rebuild his career and man enough that he's fronted up about what was holding him back.

There's obviously a player there. He's still very young, especially for striker. There's every reason to think he can still go on to have a really decent career and there's no excuse for any Albion fan not to be 100% behind him.

 

[Springal]

He's in Serie B. If he can't knock some in there, then I dunno where he goes next. Sligo Rovers ?

Glenn Murray couldn’t score in league two at Aaron’s age, was only when he was 24 in League One did he start scoring a few. He had a good career I think you’d say

 

[B-right-on]

Aaron’s last sentence suggests that he has got wise to the hangers on using him

Exactly. I wonder if it includes the girl who went on the Love Island thingy. I don't know her, never met her or know anyone who has, however on a judgement based purely on her media antics, she's not been a good influence imo.

And the problem with some hangers on is that they can be jealous and secretly not have his best interests at heart. Like leaches, suck out the blood of their host.

It sounds like he's actually 'woke up' and decided to get his shite together. Sometimes it takes hitting a rock bottom to realise how far you've fallen. Taking himself out of the environment and country is a really good move and his chance to get back to what he obviously loves, football.

Duffy's Celtic loan springs to mind.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I watched last September's Palace game in Aaron's home town of Oranmore. Everyone seemed to know him and had great respect for him. Hope it goes well for him and that he doesn't end up with a Jimmy 5 Bellies as a mate out there.

Indeed, there are many similarities with the Gazza situation of the late 1980's . . . but not in terms of his talent, obviously.